Arvind Kejriwal

COVID-19: Delhi records 111 deaths, 5,879 fresh cases

Delhi records over 2,000 fresh COVID-19 cases; death toll mounts to 3,165

11:30 pm July 7, 2020

New Delhi: A day after witnessing a sharp drop, Delhi on Tuesday recorded over 2,000 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the tally to 1,02,831 while the death toll from the disease mounted to 3,165 with 50 fatalities. On Monday, the coronavirus tally crossed the 1,00,000-mark, making the national capital the first city in the country to […]

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Rajiv Gandhi hospital gets ICMR nod to conduct plasma therapy on 200 patients

5:34 pm July 7, 2020

New Delhi: Delhi government-run Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital (RGSSH), a dedicated COVID-19 facility, has received nod from the ICMR to conduct plasma therapy on 200 coronavirus patients, senior officials said on Tuesday. RGSSH in east Delhi has treated over a thousand patients after being declared a dedicated facility, and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

COVID-19: Delhi’s 1st female plasma donor says more women should come forward; no reason to hesitate

4:41 pm July 5, 2020

New Delhi : The first female plasma donor in the national capital on Sunday asked more women to donate their ‘antibody rich’ plasma and contribute towards the fight against coronavirus pandemic. Bhumika Kohli (20), a journalism student and resident of Rohini in north west Delhi, tested positive for coronavirus on May 30. Her brother Arpit Kohli was diagnosed […]

Vaccination drive: Jab and job go hand in hand for doctors

Experts explain how Delhi plasma bank will function; who can donate and who can’t

11:49 pm July 2, 2020

New Delhi: With the Delhi government operationalising the “country’s first plasma bank” for COVID-19 patients on Thursday, experts have spelt out the protocol and screening guidelines that will come with the process. Amid rising coronavirus cases, the bank has been established in the premises of the Delhi government-run Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), which will operate from […]

Will remember him as a fighter: Wife of LNJP doctor who died of COVID-19

11:41 pm June 29, 2020

New Delhi: The grieving wife of a senior doctor at the LNJP Hospital, who died battling COVID-19, on Monday said her husband was a man with a fighting spirit and that is how she “will remember him”. Dr Aseem Gupta, 52, served in the frontline of the war against the pandemic at the COVID-only government facility, […]